Green Lantern #1

(Fall 1941)

Green Lantern: His Personal History (Table of Contents)

Green Lantern / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger (signed)

Pencils:

Mart Nodell (signed)

Inks:

Mart Nodell (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (origin retold)

Synopsis:

Engineer Alan Scott survives an explosion during a test crossing of a trestle bridge and learns he was saved by the green lantern he carried. The lantern tells how long ago a meteor was formed into a lamp by a Chinese lampmaker and how it protected him from his murderous neighbors. Later the lamp was found by an asylum inmate, who re-formed it into a lantern and was cured of his insanity by the lantern. Now it brings power to Scott, who forms a ring out of part of it and uses his new abilities as Green Lantern.

Reprinted:

• in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1

Masquerading Mare! (Table of Contents)

Green Lantern / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger (signed)

Pencils:

Mart Nodell (signed)

Inks:

Mart Nodell (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Irene Miller; "Scar" Jorgis (villain); Slink (villain); Gerald Davis (villain)

Synopsis:

When Irene Miller inherits a racehorse named Jersey Queen, racketeer "Scar" Jorgis tries to buy it to keep it out of competition. Failing that, he tries to cripple the horse, but Green Lantern puts an end to that plot. Finally, Jorgis gets Irene's cousin to convince her to enter the horse in a "claiming race," and Irene loses ownership of Jersey Queen to Scar. After GL reclaims the horse, he forces confessions out of Scar and Gerald and returns Jersey Queen to Irene.

Reprinted:

• in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1

Will Power Is the Flame of the Green Lantern! My Flame Shall Be Yours If You Develop Will Power! (Table of Contents)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

William Moulton Marston (signed)

Pencils:

Mart Nodell (illustrations); ? (photograph)

Inks:

Mart Nodell (illustrations); ? (photograph)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

fact

Characters:

William Moulton Marston (photograph); General George Washington; General Ulysses S. Grant

Synopsis:

Extols the virtue of will power and uses two great men from American history as examples.

Reprinted:

• in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1

Disease!! (Table of Contents)

Green Lantern / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger (signed)

Pencils:

Mart Nodell (signed)

Inks:

Mart Nodell (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Irene Miller; Mr. Van Smithers; Tommy Filch; Boss Filch (villain); Commissioner Merril (villain)

Synopsis:

After the district attorney accuses Boss Filch of stealing money meant for pneumonia serum and winds up dead, Green Lantern confronts Filch, but gets nowhere. GL mounts his own campaign to raise funds, stopping an impostor along the way, until Filch's son gets sick. Filch promises to confess to his grafting in exchange for help saving his boy. But Filch fingers Commissioner Merril, his partner in crime, as responsible for the DA's murderer, so GL confronts him and collects the evidence needed to put him away too.

Reprinted:

• in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1

Introducing Bill Finger and Marty Nodell Creators of Green Lantern! (Table of Contents)

biography (nonfictional) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Sheldon Mayer

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Fact

Characters:

Bill Finger (photo); Martin Nodell (photo)

Synopsis:

This contains short, informational biographies of Finger and Nodell.

Indexer Notes

This features does NOT appear in the Golden Age Green Lantern Archives Volume 1 (1999). Writer credit added by Craig Delich 3-30-08.

Arson in the Slums (Table of Contents)

Green Lantern / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger (signed)

Pencils:

Mart Nodell (signed)

Inks:

Mart Nodell (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Mr. Barton (villain); Murker (villain); Irene Miller; Mrs. James; Commissioner Grey; Mrs. Grey

Synopsis:

As a series of fires breaks out in the tenements of Capitol City, Barton, the publisher of the Daily Tattle, campaigns for the razing of the slums. But when the fire inspector uncovers evidence of arson, a Tattle reporter overhears Barton conspiring with real-estate man Murker, and a commissioner accuses Merker of his crimes, Green Lantern must swing into action to save the fire inspector and reporter from murder attempts and free the kidnapped family of the commissioner before tricking a confession out of Barton.

Reprinted:

• in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1

none (Table of Contents)

Sweet Adeline / filler / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Art Helfant (signed)

Pencils:

Art Helfant (signed)

Inks:

Art Helfant (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Art Helfant

Content Information

Genre:

gag

Characters:

Adeline

Indexer Notes

This filler does NOT appear in the Golden Age Green Lantern Archives Volume 1 (1999). Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 3-30-08.

Trailers of Treachery (Table of Contents)

Hop Harrigan / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Irwin Hasen (Green Lantern illustration); Sheldon Mayer (Hop Harrigan illustration)

Inks:

Irwin Hasen (Green Lantern illustration); Sheldon Mayer (Hop Harrigan illustration)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure; aviation

Characters:

Hop Harrigan; Tank Tinker; Dolores; Doiby Dickles (guest star); Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (guest star)

Synopsis:

Green Lantern and Doiby help Hop fight off some tough-looking men seemingly after Tank, only to find out that the men were trying to help Tank lose weight for his girlfriend Dolores.

Reprinted:

• in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1

Indexer Notes

Art credit revisions by Craig Delich June 17, 2006. Credits formerly given to Martin Nodell.

[Green Lantern in South America] (Table of Contents)

Green Lantern / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger (signed)

Pencils:

Mart Nodell (signed)

Inks:

Mart Nodell (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Irene Miller; Doiby Dickles; President of the Apex Broadcasting System; Jensen; General Ranko (villain); President Carlos (villain)

Synopsis:

Alan and Doiby head for South America to find out who has been tampering with Apex's short-wave outlet in Landavo and run right into a civil war caused by foreign agents seeking to overthrow the democratically-elected government. Green Lantern exposes the plot, opening the eyes of the misguided rebels and saving Landavo's democracy.

Reprinted:

• in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1